“With every new Cate Le Bon proposition – whether she’s operating a solo artist, collaborating with Tim Presley as DRINKS, or working as a producer for fellow revered alternative artists – the dawn breaks, illuminating an unexplored path of creativity cobbled with endless inspiration. In tandem with writing some of the most endearingly angular and abstract music of recent years, the Welsh-born song”
“Cate Le Bon’s wondrous sixth album exists in a waking dreamscape whose locked-in grooves approach the unknowable at slanted angles.”
“On her sixth LP, the Welsh avant rocker uses time-honored, tragic influences to help her make sense of the urgent, unfurling present”
“Cate Le Bon daringly explores the obscure corners of pop on Pompeii”
“penetrating art-pop with a surreal sense of isolation”
“While Cate Le Bon’s last album, 2019’s Reward, was written in relative seclusion in the Lake District, at least that was through choice. The disorienting pandemic isolation that was the backdrop to the creation of her sixth LP has resulted in a far more introspective record. Composed entirely alone (she’s described it as an “uninterrupted vacuum”) and recorded with her longstanding collaborator Sa”
